To prevent more break-ins, Facebook is adding a few more security measures to ensure that it’s really you logging in.
The company has been testing a feature that lets users pick which devices they prefer to use when logging into …
With privacy issues becoming a major problem for the world’s most successful social network, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly called for an all-hands meeting today at 4:00 PM Pacific time at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters.
Insider blog All Facebook …
Publishers are considering whether they should adopt a new Facebook Like button for their websites. Some privacy advocates — and plenty of non-experts — have denounced the buttons as stealthily invasive to Facebook users’ privacy.
Now, news site Business Insider …
Celebrities won’t have an excuse anymore for dull fan websites.
Site Canvas is launching tools today that let people create websites with rich, dynamic content without having to pay huge fees.
The Los Angeles-based company, which was previously operating in …
Trusted Opinion, a social recommendation network for restaurants, bars, cafes, and movies, announced today that it has hit a new milestone of 1.5 million reviews worldwide from its 1 million registered members.
The site weights reviews from your social circle …
Nickelodeon is launching a virtual goods platform today for its AddictingGames casual games web site.
AddictingGames has the biggest audience for casual games on a web site, with 34 million monthly active users. More than 1,000 game developers contribute games …
Facebook’s recent announcement of its Open Graph (an effort to map the Web’s content in social terms) and the manner in which it impacts privacy have been the subject of pointed debate for the past few weeks. While these developments …
Mobile location application Foursquare is diversifying itself into a platform of its own today by launching an aggregation of third-party applications built on top of its core service. It’s calling it the App Gallery.
According to TechCrunch, Foursquare suspects there …
One of Google’s top product managers for Android just left the building.
Erick Tseng, who led the overall development of the company’s much ballyhooed Nexus One phone is heading to Facebook, where he’ll become the company’s head of mobile products. …
Sibblingz launched a social game platform today that lets publishers release games that players can enjoy on multiple game devices. One of the first game publishers to use the platform is Crowdstar, a hot Facebook game maker that is also …
BuzzFeed, which features and tracks viral content, has raised $8 million in a second round of funding.
The news was first reported in TechCrunch, and cofounder Jonah Peretti (pictured) confirmed the news via email. RRE Ventures led the round, with …
Ticketfly, a startup that allows concert promoters to sell tickets and promote their events on social networking services, just raised $3 million in a first round of funding.
The San Francisco company’s cofounders and co-chief executives, Andrew Dreskin and Dan …
When Google was fresh off its $27 billion initial public offering almost six years ago, Facebook was but a college social network fueled by hormones and the occasional lascivious profile photo. It had just around 200,000 members and $500,000 in …
Philip Kaplan, cofounder of Twitter-for-credit-cards startup Blippy, has been talking about giving outside developers access to the site’s data (through an application programming interface) for a while now. Today, he’s officially launching the API on-stage at the Finovate conference in …
Facebook’s social plug-ins are spreading quickly across the web, and the number of sites hosting them has doubled in the last week and a half to 100,000, according to the company.
The plug-ins, launched at the end of last month, …
It looks like Blippy isn’t the only startup betting that users want to tell their friends what they’ve been buying — it’s joined today by Swipely, a site that’s launching its invitation-only preview.
But Providence, Rhode Island-based Swipely is more …
After close to five months of beta testing, Twitter is preparing to launch a suite of business features tied to a central Twitter Business Center. Right now they are only available for a small number of accounts, but they will …
After fumbling attempt after attempt at getting social networking right, Google is looking for a new executive to show it the way. It’s apparently hiring a new head of social.
GigaOm obtained a recruiting letter describing the position:
“This is …
It looks like the Facebook account of Jim Breyer, whose firm Accel Partners was an early investor in the social network and who sits on the company’s board, was hacked over the weekend.
Breyer’s account sent out a message to …
You know that precious follower count you’ve spent months building up by posting insightful tweets and conversations on Twitter?
It’s temporarily at zero this morning after a bug emerged that allowed anyone to force anyone else to follow them.
All …
